A lot of companies treat environments as fragile. Tasks that require an update to an environment configuration are often met with “Why should I touch my environment? It hasn’t given me any issues and has been untouched for years”. This response is rooted in the toil and time many developers have spent provisioning one-off environment requests, troubleshooting mysterious bugs caused by differences in environments, and the high stakes of impacting production with no quick fix.
Ephemeral environment is the idea of provisioning an environment on-demand when needed and then destroying it afterward. In this talk, we will look at the Advantages of Ephemeral Environments & various Use Cases for them.
** Key Takeaways: **
* Advantages of Ephemeral Environments
* Various Use Cases of Ephemeral Environments
* Demo of Ephemeral Environments (if time permits)